What does the Mario movie mean for games? What is Dream Games follow-up to Royal Match? Where does Phillip La go after Sky Mavis? Was the Scopely acquisition a good deal? What does Sony’s cloud hires say about its strategy? What crazy thing has AI done now? Dive into the latest games business news with Aaron Bush, Anil Das-Gupta, Tammy Levy and your host Devin Becker.

00:00 - Start
01:43 - The Super Mario Bros Movie goes super
09:05 - Dream Games has a new game
22:42 - Phillip La leaves Sky Mavis
28:36 - Scopely acquisition by Savvy
43:35 - Sony’s cloud chasing
54:54 - New AI surprises
01:08:16 - Outro

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